Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents

by Elaine Showalter

Book Overview

"I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice," Elaine Showalter writes, "once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not too easily identified in either of these guises . . . although I can tell you that I preferred being cast as the luscious Concord grape to my role as the withered prune."

In the days before there were handbooks, self-help guides, or advice columns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812238508
• ISBN13: 9780812238501
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"